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This work addresses the whole range of problems relating to the application of satellite technology to studies of regional seas and sea phenomona - the Gulf Stream, the Kuroshia Current - and coastal zones. It argues that to emphasize global applications is to fail to take into account fundamental idiosyncracies specific to the regional perspective. In addition, it describes implementation techniques - data gathering, in situ data assurance, a...

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McGrath is a cool-eyed chronicler of a dispossessed generation - philosophical, astute and ultimately unforgiving. This is no pseudo rock'n'roll road trip, but an accessible and insightful study of the modern condition. The final autobiographical chapter is breathtaking."DEBORAH BOSLEY, 'Literary Review'"McGrath meets the nation's lost souls of the New Age. A 267-year-old princess from the tribe of Atlantis, a technoshaman, an alien who talks ...

This text provides an analysis of collective behaviour - a central topic in social psychology. It considers why individuals do or don't get involved in collective action.

This text provides an analysis of how children come to be able to understand the dynamic nature of causality - how processes take place through time. The author studies the capabilities and limitations of 7-12 year old children in order to assess their conception of evolutionary processes.

This work addresses the whole range of problems relating to the application of satellite technology to studies of regional seas and sea phenomona, such as the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshia Current, and coastal zones.

Making important links between poststructuralism, feminism and linguistics, this text explores the relationship between school writing and student learning. It shows how critical linguistics and feminist theory can be used to study power and disciplinary relations in the classroom.

With wit and clarity, the author of more than 20 popular science books, including God and the New Physics and The Last Three Minutes, now explores the riddle of time, examining the consequences of Einstein's theory of relativity and offering startling suggestions about what recent research may reveal. 50 line drawings.

Provides articles on Ornette Coleman, Thelonius Monk, Billie Holliday, and Fats Waller and explores the distinctions between jazz and the underpinnings of European musical forms.

The first volume of the celebrated Deverry series, an epic fantasy rooted in Celtic mythology that intricately interweaves human and elven history over several hundred years.

Lists and describes approximately 1, 600 published and unpublished choral works by more than 100 African-American composers and arrangers, 600 more works than the first edition.

This multidisciplinary collection underlines the importance of understanding the operations of human agency - defined here as the ability to exert power, specifically in resistance to ideological pressure. In particular, the contributors emphasize the historical and cultural conditions that facilitate the production of agency in an effort to gain a deeper understanding of the cultures of China, India, and Japan. The contributors argue that tra...

Dave Barry is one funny human."--San Francisco ExaminerFor thousands of years, women have asked themselves: What is the deal with guys, anyway? What are they thinking? The answer, of course, is: virtually nothing. Deep down inside, guys are extremely shallow.But that has not stopped Dave Barry from writing an entire book about them. If you're a guy--or if you're attempting to share a remote control with one--you need this book, because it deal...

Siba N¿Zatioula Grovogui is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. He previously practiced law in his native Guinea.

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The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship. The top stories are listed democratically in order of importance according to students, faculty, and a national panel of judges. Each of the top stories is presented at length, alon...

naking important links between poststructuralism, feminism and linguistics, this text explores the relationship between school writing and student learning. It shows how critical linguistics and feminist theory can be used to study power and

This is a composition of papers presented at the Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society. Featured is a broad spectrum of research from many of the leading specialists in fields including consumer ergonomics and organization ergonomics.